And The Winner Is

Pat Buchanan, the first TV pundit to tell the truth about how we got into the Iraq war:

(Transcript of the pie-fight cable show “Hardball” from Tuesday)

MATTHEWS: Do you think Judy Miller was writing stories on the front page of the New York Times on Sunday which then, of course, became the platform of discussion on the Sunday talk shows, saying there were weapons of mass destruction.
So, it wasn`t just one side that was leaking it.

BUCHANAN: Chris, you are right on it right there. The success here

and Mr. Gergen and Buchanan were never able to achieve it–the folks in Cheney`s office and the White House turned the New York Times, the newspaper of record in this country into a propaganda organ for the war party.

Secondly, why did Wilson go to Niger?

Somebody forged some documents which were given then to the president. And he was saying nuclear weapons, nukes in Iraq. Somebody forged them to get this country into a war.

And no, he didn’t blame the Israelis:

BUCHANAN: Who forged those documents?

MATTHEWS: But weren`t those documents disseminated out of Italy?

BUCHANAN: They were, yes, but who forged them, Chris?

Somebody made those up. Some intelligence service or some brilliant individual…

(CROSSTALK)

BUCHANAN: They were too badly forged for Mossad to have done it, you know. They do better work than that.